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...Alex Pappas
Ms. Singh
English 104
28 March 2008
Wireless Communication
Wireless communications are everywhere. People around the world regularly send and receive messages wirelessly, that is, transmitted through the air. Three types of wireless communications include wireless messaging services, wireless Internet access points, and global positioning systems.
People use mobile phones, PDAs, and other mobile devices to access text messaging, instant messaging, and picture messaging services [ (Davies 34-42) ]. Through text messaging services, users send and receive short text messages, which usually consist of fewer than 300 characters. Wireless instant messaging is an Internet communications service that allows a wireless mobile device to exchange instant messages with one or more mobile devices or online personal computers. Users send graphics, pictures, video clips, sound files, and short text messages with picture messaging services.
In many public locations, people connect to the Internet through a wireless Internet access point using mobile computers and devices. Two types of wireless Internet access points are hot spots and 3-G networks. A 3-G network, which uses cellular radio technology, enables users to connect to the Internet through a mobile phone or computer equipped with an appropriate PC Card. A hot spot is a wireless network that allows mobile users to check e-mail, browse the Web, and access any Internet service – as long as their computers or devices......

...Bradley Allen
Grace Seunghae O
7/3/13
Response to Alex Tabarrok
I do not agree with Alex Taborrok’s discussion. I think that his points are far too fantasized to be considered as something real and tangible. Although it would be nice to think that a globalized economy will bring about a rise in productivity and eventual prosperity for all, it is irresponsible to believe that the United States should be the forerunner in developing new technologies, and improve education in order to meet those rising standards in development. When Taborrok says, "The US educational system is the candle for others to light their flames", he leaves out that the United States of America is not even in the top rankings of education throughout all countries in the world. I disagree with this point. I, along with many other people, agree that our educational system is in complete shambles. Our children are forced into a standardized curriculum that doesn’t efficiently prepare them for the real-world. It also does not encourage problem-solving behavior. They completely glaze over issues such as taking care of ourselves by eating right, which is the cause for the nation-wide epidemic of obesity and disease. We have far too many of our own problems that need to be dealt with in our educational system for us to be considered the light that will shine the way into everlasting prosperity. If the globalized world comes to us for our education, than we will just increase our problems and spread them......

...Issues
Alex Sander’s behaviour can be summed up in the following points:
• He doesn’t give much importance to performance review system as he thinks that the 360̊ performance review system was just a waste of time
• He believed that his temper was the most effective management tool for him because he feels that his anger resulted in the increase of the output of the company employees
• He lacked the quality of being an effective manager as he was incapable of getting work done from others.
• His aggressive nature in the completion of the project and believes that being pushy and commanding is the only way to get the job done.
• Lack of patience in Alex is also one of the major issues as he gets irritated of explaining things to his employees more than a couple of times
• For him the success was only in terms of money as he only looked at the fact the how much more amount of return he has made on his investment
Sam Glass (one of the product group supervisors) has certain issues:
• He considers the 360̊ performance review as an important part and wants Alex to take all the survey seriously
• Glass is also concerned about the working style of Alex because while working in a team he doesn’t work as a team rather he works as an individual and tries to complete all the work on his own
• Besides all flaws that Alex has, Sam Glass still wants to have Alex in his office because of his hard work and his dedication toward the......

...Alex as an Antihero
The question that has plagued scientists, sociologists and psychologists alike over time has been a simple "Are humans born completely good or evil?". Though the question still remains elusive, Anthony Burgess attmepts to make a point about humanity in his novel Clockwork Orange. Burgess presents the idea that good and evil are both necessities in humans, and that often it is up to freewill and choice to become one or the other. In his novel, Burgess created a character that chose to do many bad things voluntarily, but near the end the same character decided to show some good qualities and good intentions when goodness was not being forced upon him. Alex's presentation as an antihero emphasizes Burgess' point of the co-existance of good and evil.
Alex fufills many qualities to being identified as an antihero. He has visible flaws, creating an imperfect image, and he appears to be more "gritty" in personality instead of being more refined. When Alex decides to engage in criminal activity he never thinks about what the right or moral choice is, he often thinks of what will benefit only himself. As seen on page 23, Alex punches his friend, Dim, in the nose as revenge for not composing himself and being mannered in public showing that Alex does seek revenge for personal satisfaction. Lastly, Alex also posesses qualities in himself that would normally belong to a villian, such as greed, amorallity and having violent tendencies.
There are also several......

...A Day in Life of Alex Slander
Problem Statement
To identify method in which Sam Glass can effectively implement 360 degree feedback system and utilize it in developing the leadership attributes in Alex Sander.
PESTCL Analysis
Political: External trade unions can create havoc over employees working for long hours and denied holidays by Alex
Economic: Avant-Garde’s skin care products division is aiming at achieving major US market share by launching the product “Nourish” by acquiring the company Landon Care Products
Technological: With the advent of new technological interfaces people are able to communicate with the virtual teams across several countries and are able to receive work related feedback.
Cultural – The acquisition of an American company, Landon by a European company Avant-Garde created some differences in the work culture of Landon. American employees have to work with their European colleagues, where the cultural differences were high as well.
SWOT Analysis
SWOT of Alex Sander
Strengths | Opportunities |
* High commitment to work * Entrepreneurial abilities * Excellent decision making skills * Multitasking * Open to learning opportunities * Good product/market knowledge * Is willing to mentor * Inquisitive/curious * Successfully rebranded two national skin care products- confidence and experience * Relentless * Generous and acknowledges good performance * Proactive | * To get into broader planning areas in Landon *......

...Science Fair ____________________________________ alex zamora 03\24\14 teacher:MRS.TATKIN ROOM:205 1.MY SCIENCE FAIR QUESTION THAT I WILL TEST IS DOES THE FLAVOR OF GELATIN AFFECT THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO SET? MY TOPIC IS TO DO WITH TIME AND COMPARING AND CONTRASTING.
2.MY HYPOTHESIS TO THIS IS THAT THE CONDENSITY OF THE GELATIN AND THE ACID OF THE GELATIN WILL AFFECT THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO SET BECAUSE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GELATIN HAVE DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF CONDENSITY AND ACID AND SUGAR SO MY HYPOTHESIS IS YES THE FLAVOR OF GELATIN WILL AFFECT THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT TAKES TO SET.
3.MY PURPOSE OF THIS IS BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW SOME KIDS LIKE GELATIN/JELLO AND THEY LOVE IT AND THEY WANT THEIR PARENTS TO MAKE THEM SOME BUT IT TAKES TO LONG TO SET AND THE KIDS ARE THROWING A FIT BECAUSE THEY WANT IT NOW LIKE NOW NOW NOW AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT FLAVOR OF GELATIN TAKES THE LEAST AMOUNT OF TIME TO SET SO I CAN TELL MY MOM THE FLAVOR TO BUY TO MAKE MY SISTER TO MAKE IT FAST.
4.THE MATERIALS WE WILL NEED TO PREFORM THIS SCIENCE EXPERIMENT IS A POT TO BOIL WATER TO MAKE GELATIN,TWO BOWLS TO PUT ONE GELATIN FLAVOR IN EACH WHEN GELATIN DONE,TWO STOPWATCHES TO SEE HOW LONG EACH FLAVOR TAKES TO SET,REFRIGERATOR TO PUT GELATIN IN TO SET,AND A DATA TABLE SET UP WITH 3 TRIALS TO HAVE THE PROPER DATA IN SCIENCE WE ALWAYS HAVE TO DO 3 TRIALS FOR EVERY EXPERIMENT WE CONDUCT.
5.I AM WORKING WITH A PARTNER AND HIS NAME IS ISAAC PENA AND ME AND HIM ARE GOING TO SPLIT THE......

...THE TASK:
Alex began to define our mission and my assignment:
“Our company is considering establishing a greater presence here in Kava,” Alex started. “That greater presence could take various forms, based on what’s good for our company and what’s good for the people of Kava. You and I get the chance to analyze, synthesize, and prescribe regarding that decision.”
“Because so many disasters happen here?” I questioned. “I think I can write up this recommendation in two words, ‘Forget It’.”
Again with great patience, Alex explained, slowly and deliberately, “I guess you can just take your ball and go home. But our organization chose to play in this game and you chose to join our organization. If you really want to play, you will have to take your turn at bat. There are no designated hitters in this game.”
I rephrased my thoughts, “OK, we want a greater presence on Kava, because so many disasters happen here.”
Alex answered, “Yes, but even more. Certainly, one reason is that whatever happens here affects us there. I’ll make sure you understand that as we create this study. As you’ve seen recently, disasters happen at home, too. We can avoid, deny, or ignore them. We have to turn them into opportunities. Another huge reason is the founder of our company, Chris Morales, has a deep-seeded commitment to doing what is right. Not because of the economics, or politics, or recognition, but because it’s the right thing to do. Our organization is far from perfect, but we keep......

...SITUATION
Alex Sander is a young and promising product manager in the Toiletries Division of Landon Care Products Inc. Over the past year, he has successfully rebranded two of Landon’s skin care products in the United States. Alex has created a winning enviornment at the Toiletries Division by applying very high standards to everyone, and often pushing his staff to the limits. A recent 360 degree review has revealed that Alex’s strong drive to succeed has come at a cost, as his staff are highly disenchanted by his iron-fisted ways. (Alex has since discounted the importance of the these findings.)
Sam Glass, Alex’s direct manager, is one of the three Product Group supervisors and is coordinating the 360 degree Performance/Feedback Review discussion with Alex. As part of the 360 process comments have been recorded from selected individuals higher and lower in the organizational hierarchy that the individual receiving the feedback. Sam is scheduled to have a discussion with Alex on his 360 process comments and has indicated a contradiction with the results and Alex’s self-assessment.
ANALYSIS
Alex Sander is described by his staff as a successful, but overly-critical, narcissistic, demanding and inconsiderate micro-manager. These attributes fit the Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics’ (Dillon 2013, p. 15) description of a “Control-Freak Boss”. With reference to the Guide, it must be understood that Alex is behaving in this manner not because he is evil.......

...evil” portrait of Alex. He is a sort of incarnation of House, MD, a main character of a famous TV series: he is a high performer, but he has a lack of ability to work well with others. Narcissism, Machiavellianism and arrogance are three important negative traits of his personality emerge from the data and from the case.
Alex’s Napoleonic temper negatively affects his work environment causing nervous and distressed co-workers without seeing anything wrong with this situation as long as the job gets done. Therefore his co-workers respect him, but they do not see him as a team leader.
If I were Glass, I would invest more time in helping Alex progress in Landon.
First, I would read and analyze his 360 performance review with him because there are plenty of comments on Alex that should open his eyes to his arrogance. Since he is a narcissist, it would be hard to get Alex admit his weakness, but he definitely needs a wakeup call to let him fully understand and take seriously this issue. If he wants to be a well rounded leader, he absolutely needs to understand how his attitude affects others emotions and work performance.
For this reason I would implement a reward system that takes into account also his ability to evaluate co-workers contributions, not just economic or financial goals.
I would suggest Alex to go to counseling to help him relate to others, and workshops on performance reviews to teach him the validity and strength of a 360 review. Therefore, Alex will......

...Executive Summary
Our team concludes that risk and return are strongly correlated. A higher risk usually yields a higher return. Our team observed that within Alex Sharpe’s portfolio, the Reynolds’ fund holds the highest risk (highest standard deviation of 32.45%), as well as the highest return (16.27% in comparison to Hasbro’s return of 11.31%). Although a lower standard deviation (lower risk) is ideal for an investment portfolio, the Reynolds’ fund yields a higher return for the higher associated risk. Furthermore, our team’s data illustrated that the mix of S&P with Reynolds has a higher return and lower standard deviation than the S&P alone. In addition, if Sharpe invests in Reynolds and Hasbro equally, at for instance, one percent, the average return for Reynolds is significantly higher (at 7.08%) than the average return for Hasbro (at 6.97%). Computing the Sharpe ratio for each of the portfolios, the one with 1% Reynolds is the highest at. Given this analysis, our team feels that Alex Sharpe should consider investing more in the Reynolds fund than in Hasbro fund.
Stock Analysis
1. Returns and Risk
Estimate and compare the returns and variability (i.e., annual standard deviation over the past five years) of Reynolds and Hasbro with that of the S&P 500 Index. Which stock appears to be riskiest?
| S&P500 | Reynolds | Hasbro |
Arithmetic Return | 6.89% | 22.50% | 14.21% |
Std Dev | 12.48% | 32.45% | 28.11% |
Reynolds has the highest......

...FINA 5210: Investment Analysis (Prof. Abhiroop Mukherjee)
Alex Sharpe’s Portfolio Discussion Guidelines
1. Download the raw data file from the LMES website under folder Cases Alex Sharpe’s Portfolio. Estimate and compare the average returns and variability of Reynolds and Hasbro. Which stock appears to be the riskiest by itself?
Computing the average returns and standard deviations of Reynolds and Hasbro gives us the results shown in the table below. If the stocks are judged just by themselves, Reynolds has a higher standard deviation than Hasbro (9.37>8.12), hence it is more risky.
Question: Can we also consider the sharpe-ratio? This would show some kind of risk adjusted-return!
| REYNOLDS | HASBRO |
Mean | 1.87% | 1.18% |
Stdev | 9.37% | 8.12% |
2. Suppose Sharpe’s position had been 99% of equity funds invested in the Vanguard 500 Index and either 1% in Reynolds or 1% in Hasbro. Estimate the average return and volatility of the resulting portfolio. How does each stock affect the variability of the equity investment? How does this compare to your answer in question 1?
For both portfolio a and b, the average return increases compared to holding 100% of V500. The average return on portfolio a is higher than that of portfolio b (0.587>0.580). For portfolio a, the volatility of the portfolio decreases, whereas the volatility of Portfolio b increases.
It is interesting to note that although Reynolds has a much higher standard deviation...

...portrait of Alex. He is a sort of incarnation of House, MD, a main character of a famous TV series: he is a high performer, but he has a lack of ability to work well with others. Narcissism, Machiavellianism and arrogance are three important negative traits of his personality emerge from the data and from the case.
Alex’s Napoleonic temper negatively affects his work environment causing nervous and distressed co-workers without seeing anything wrong with this situation as long as the job gets done. Therefore his co-workers respect him, but they do not see him as a team leader.
If I were Glass, I would invest more time in helping Alex progress in Landon.
First, I would read and analyze his 360 performance review with him because there are plenty of comments on Alex that should open his eyes to his arrogance. Since he is a narcissist, it would be hard to get Alex admit his weakness, but he definitely needs a wakeup call to let him fully understand and take seriously this issue. If he wants to be a well rounded leader, he absolutely needs to understand how his attitude affects others emotions and work performance.
For this reason I would implement a reward system that takes into account also his ability to evaluate co-workers contributions, not just economic or financial goals.
I would suggest Alex to go to counseling to help him relate to others, and workshops on performance reviews to teach him the validity and strength of a 360 review. Therefore, Alex will......

...A Day In The Life Of Alex Sander
In: Business and Management
A Day In The Life Of Alex Sander
What does the 360 degree data tell us about Alex's likely career success?
If you were Sam Glass, would you invest more time in helping Sander progress at Landon?
The 360 degree data draws a “good vs. evil” portrait of Alex. He is a sort of incarnation of House, MD, a main character of a famous TV series: he is a high performer, but he has a lack of ability to work well with others. Narcissism, Machiavellianism and arrogance are three important negative traits of his personality emerge from the data and from the case.
Alex’s Napoleonic temper negatively affects his work environment causing nervous and distressed co-workers without seeing anything wrong with this situation as long as the job gets done. Therefore his co-workers respect him, but they do not see him as a team leader.
If I were Glass, I would invest more time in helping Alex progress in Landon.
First, I would read and analyze his 360 performance review with him because there are plenty of comments on Alex that should open his eyes to his arrogance. Since he is a narcissist, it would be hard to get Alex admit his weakness, but he definitely needs a wakeup call to let him fully understand and take seriously this issue. If he wants to be a well rounded leader, he absolutely needs to understand how his attitude affects others emotions and work performance.
For this reason I would implement a...

...Executive Summary
Our team concludes that risk and return are strongly correlated. A higher risk usually yields a higher return. Our team observed that within Alex Sharpe’s portfolio, the Reynolds’ fund holds the highest risk (highest standard deviation of 32.45%), as well as the highest return (16.27% in comparison to Hasbro’s return of 11.31%). Although a lower standard deviation (lower risk) is ideal for an investment portfolio, the Reynolds’ fund yields a higher return for the higher associated risk. Furthermore, our team’s data illustrated that the mix of S&P with Reynolds has a higher return and lower standard deviation than the S&P alone. In addition, if Sharpe invests in Reynolds and Hasbro equally, at for instance, one percent, the average return for Reynolds is significantly higher (at 7.08%) than the average return for Hasbro (at 6.97%). Computing the Sharpe ratio for each of the portfolios, the one with 1% Reynolds is the highest at. Given this analysis, our team feels that Alex Sharpe should consider investing more in the Reynolds fund than in Hasbro fund.
Stock Analysis
1. Returns and Risk
Estimate and compare the returns and variability (i.e., annual standard deviation over the past five years) of Reynolds and Hasbro with that of the S&P 500 Index. Which stock appears to be riskiest?
| S&P500 | Reynolds | Hasbro |
Arithmetic Return | 6.89% | 22.50% | 14.21% |
Std Dev | 12.48% | 32.45% | 28.11% |
Reynolds has the highest risk (measured by Std......